Years ago we had one of those Franklins that was not air tight and we went thru a lot of wood. Then we got a Fisher and we would load it up in the morning before we went to work and it was still going when we got home. We did the same thing when we went to bed.
Only electric was available when we built our house and it was too expensive. We heated with wood from about 1976 thru the mid eighties and only had either aspen or ponderosa pine. Growing up we heated with a coal furnace and it never went out all winter.
I don't think many people today know how to properly bank down a fire to get it to burn all night.
